How does escrow work?

Every payment is held in escrow — with our UAE-licensed payments partner — until the right condition is met. On a purchase, the buyer's money is held from checkout and only releases to the seller once the piece is delivered and the SNAD window passes without a claim.

No party — seller, buyer, or Lebsloop — can move the money outside of these state transitions. The ledger is double-entry, immutable (every state change appends a new row, never updates), and stored in fils (1 AED = 100 fils) as integers so we never have floating-point rounding errors on money.

If a dispute opens, the funds stay frozen until resolution.